About Me

Mitch Wheat has been working as a professional programmer since 1984, graduating with a honours degree in Mathematics from Warwick University, UK in 1986. He moved to Perth in 1995, having worked in software houses in London and Rotterdam. He has worked in the areas of mining, electronics, research, defence, financial, GIS, telecommunications, engineering, and information management.
Mitch has worked mainly with Microsoft technologies (since Windows version 3.0) but has also used UNIX. He holds the following Microsoft certifications: MCPD (Web and Windows) using C# and SQL Server MCITP (Admin and Developer). His preferred development environment is C#, .Net Framework and SQL Server. Mitch has worked as an independent consultant for the last 10 years, and is currently involved with helping teams improve their Software Development Life Cycle. His areas of special interest lie in performance tuning

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Favourite Quotes…

OK, this is not a technical post, but I do like succinct, pithy quotes. They seem to sum up what we often do as developers, that is, reduce things to simple, but information rich forms, meme's if you will. Here are just a few of my favourite quotes:

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.- Erasmus

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.- Benjamin Franklin

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.- George Santayana(often paraphased as: Those that ignore history, are doomed to repeat it.)

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.- Voltaire

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.- Sir Winston ChurchillHistory will be kind to me for I intend to write it.- Sir Winston Churchill

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.- Albert Einstein

Any fool can defend his or her mistakes … and most fools do.- Dale Carnegie